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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 15 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Cassandra Campbell. |
| Summary |
Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start - she's a lesbian, he's gay - but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Paggy and Lee's children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie must deal with his father's compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother's lies - she knows neither her real age, nor that she is 'white,' nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction.
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Pregnancy -- Fiction.
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Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
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Siblings -- Fiction.
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Virginia -- Fiction.
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Campbell, Cassasndra. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781622317547 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1622317548 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11418177 |
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